INTER-DATA CENTER SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK CONTROLLER NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20200344147A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-29

    申请号:US16457050

    申请日:2019-06-28

    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller with real-time or near-real time visibility of the operation of data center fabrics to determine whether the DCI was properly configured. For example, an SDN controller receives high-level configuration data that describes a desired state of a network managed by the SDN controller at a high level of abstraction. The SDN controller applies a transformation function to the high-level configuration data to generate a low-level configuration data for network devices configured to implement the desired state of the network. SDN controller configures the SDN controller as a peer to the network devices to obtain one or more routes exchanged between the network devices. The SDN controller sends the low-level configuration data to the network devices to cause the network devices to implement the desired state of the network.

    TOPOLOGY COMPILER FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230006885A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17305118

    申请日:2021-06-30

    Abstract: An example controller device that manages a plurality of network devices includes one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to receive, via an application programming interface (API) framework, an indication of an intent. The intent includes data indicating an update to a data structure including a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of network devices and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of nodes. The one or more processing units are further configured to process the intent to select a topology compiler from a plurality of topology compilers and invoke, via the API framework, the selected topology compiler using a role of a network device of the plurality of network devices and an indication of the network device as input to generate abstract configuration information. The one or more processing units are further configured to configure the network device based on the abstract configuration information.

    VIRTUAL PORT GROUP
    5.
    发明申请
    VIRTUAL PORT GROUP 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200344158A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-29

    申请号:US16588749

    申请日:2019-09-30

    Abstract: A virtual port group abstraction can facilitate automated configuration of devices in a data center. For example, a data center administrator can define a virtual port group to include a set of logical and physical interfaces for devices allocated to a particular department or other group within a company. An administrator for the department can then utilize a user interface to perform actions with respect to the virtual port group. The actions can include configuration actions, modeling actions and/or deployment actions. An action received by a network management controller such as a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller can be converted into the appropriate actions for the relevant logical and physical interfaces that are configured to be part of the virtual port group.

    VENDOR AGNOSTIC PROFILE-BASED MODELING OF SERVICE ACCESS ENDPOINTS IN A MULTITENANT ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220217047A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-07

    申请号:US17655718

    申请日:2022-03-21

    Abstract: An access profile includes configuration characteristics that are defined using device and operating system agnostic attributes. Thus, the access profiles are not necessarily dependent or otherwise tied to any particular vendor or network OS. When a system administrator configures one or more service access points, the system administrator need only specify the vendor and network OS agnostic characteristics that are to be associated with the service access point. A configuration generator can generate vendor specific and/or network specific configuration commands and data from the vendor and network OS agnostic access profile attributes. The generated configuration commands and data can be provided to a network device hosting the service access point using a vendor specific and/or network OS specific configuration application program interface.

    USER CUSTOMIZATION AND AUTOMATION OF OPERATIONS ON A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20210184971A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US17169303

    申请日:2021-02-05

    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for defining and executing device-independent commands on a network having a plurality of network devices. In some examples, a controller includes a graphical user interface. The controller displays, via the graphical user interface, network devices that support a device-independent command selected from one or more device-independent commands, wherein each device-independent command performs one or more operations on supported network devices. The controller receives, via the graphical user interface, user input selecting two or more of the displayed network devices and performs the one or more operations of the selected device-independent command on the selected network devices. In some examples, performing includes executing tasks associated with each network device, wherein the tasks, when executed, perform the one or more operations on each respective network device.

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